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LTW's avatar

Chatbots can also be programmed to prescribe the latest drugs and widen further the prescription of best sellers (think statins with actualized LDL thresholds for example) more easily than trying to convince all MD of new guidelines.

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Emmanuel's avatar

And this is where the disaster lies.

The effort to rip away sole prescriptive authority from MDs instead of working to convince MDs is already nearing terminal stages.

Nurses and PAs already have full prescriptive authority. There is now a push to grant it to pharmacists, and next an ‘AI’. EMRs initially improved things, but have made physician efficiency worse on the long run, as has most ‘tech’. I expect chatGPT to also makes things worse for everyone not in the c-suite.

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LTW's avatar

Moreover, the health crisis has not been kind to physicians' freedom to prescribe, but they have not really resisted.

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Emmanuel's avatar

The US is a very much ‘vote with your feet’ place, especially for physicians. Why resist when you can find a better gig elsewhere on this continent of a nation.

The sentiment is: ‘I will focus on my patients, my practice, I can’t save the world’

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